origination

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Definition

noun an event that is a beginning; a first part or stage of subsequent events
noun the act of starting something for the first time; introducing something new

Borrowed from Latin orīginātiō, from orīgō (“to act, to commence”, stem as origin-) + -tiō.

3 The absolute Completeness of the ORIGINATION of a phenomenon. — The Critique of Pure Reason, Immanuel Kant
But how can we explain such an origination without the active intervention of the mind? — Time and Free Will: An Essay on the Immediate Data of Consciousness, Henri Bergson
So then that seems to be compulsory “whose origination is from without, the party compelled contributing nothing.” — The Nicomachean ethics of Aristotle, Aristotle

origin, inception

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